The untold stories of the National Security Council
John Gans, director of communications and research at Perry World House, discusses his new book that captures the stories and inner workings of National Security Council staff.
John Gans, then a doctoral student at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, had a pretty simple question: What do the staffers of the National Security Council (NSC) actually do?
In search of a dissertation topic, Gans suggested that question on the NSC to his adviser and was told to come back after going through what had already been written. It turned out, Gans says, there wasn’t much written about it at all.
Now, with the publication of “White House Warriors: How the National Security Council Transformed the American Way of War,†he’s filling that hole in the scholarship and trying to bring his findings to the masses.
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